History, hirsute-ory, and The Beards of Gravitas (which, Dave Barry style, would totally make a great name for a band). A highly entertaining and informative post about beards, from A. L. Berridge.
Leila and the Dream Smashers (also a great band name) - a post about all those wonderful and supportive people who "help" others by deconstructing any hope of success ... not just for writers, but certainly a phenomenon most of us have probably run into. Ahh, the useful negativity of ignorance.
Beloved Ex (a.k.a. The Nordic G-d) and I were emailing this week, and I hope he takes a look at this blog and finds this link. A marvelous variety, and absolute beauty - vintage images of Norway. Courtesy, once again, The Passion of Former Days.
Given my penchant for sword nerdlery, I had to love Anthony Riches' latest swordid post. Yay!
It's likely that anyone reading much around here has seen Thomas Rowlandson's work at some point - though, perhaps, I don't have enough U. K. readers to know many of them will see this exhibit of Rowlandson's work; oddly, first collected by one of his most visible targets, the Prince Regent (George IV). Still worth a good look - for those interested in the humor, in the politics, in the technique and the art ... History Extra has collected a good many images for the post linked above, clickable for a look at the detail.
Greed. War. Looting. And the right of conquest. *Shudder* I don't want to comment on this piece, except to note that it is an intriguing contemporary story reaching back to WWII and into many pockets, personal and cultural. As always, The History Blog is written very well. Also: sigh.
Finally, HB also has a good piece on the opening of that sarcophagus at Lincoln, which dates to the century pre-Conquest.
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As a fellow dream maker, you are marvelous!
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